High court begins term one justice short

AP ^ | 9/12/5

[SmithL]

San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court begins its 2005-06 term Tuesday one member short following the June departure of Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Brown's departure paves the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill perhaps his most important post. At the request of Schwarzenegger, a State Bar evaluation committee is reviewing Justice Vance Raye of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, and Justice Carol Corrigan, of the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco.

[SmithL]

It's California's loss, but it's also our gift to American Justice.

[Clintonfatigued]

Hopefullly, her replacement will turn out to be a conservative with a future in the Federal Courts.

BTW, if you're from California, what do you know about Brown's former colleague Ming Chin?

[RWR8189]

Hopefully in a few days there will be another vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Ming Chin is moderate, like O'Connor/Kennedy.. only a bit more to the left than those two.

[tom h]

I'm guessing either Priscilla Owen or Janice Brown. It certainly would be poetic justice to the Dems. Bush would have outfoxed them. From years-long filibuster in January to two bedrock conservatives on the court. Bush can then save the mother-of-all-confirmation battles for when John Paul Stevens passes away of old age, or for when David Souter is declared brain-dead (it's been true for years, but without a doctor's certificate it can't be documented), or when petite little Ruth Bader Ginsburg stops breathing.